Battle of Uedahara
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| Battle of Uedahara | |||||||
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| Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||
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| Combatants | |||||||
| forces of Takeda Shingen | forces of Murakami Yoshikiyo | ||||||
| Commanders | |||||||
| Takeda Shingen, Itagaki Nobukata† | Murakami Yoshikiyo | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 7000 men | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties | |||||||
| 700 men | Unknown | ||||||
| Campaigns of the Takeda |
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| Nashinokidaira - Un no Kuchi - Sezawa - Uehara - Kuwabara - Fukuyo - Nagakubo - Kojinyama - Takatō 1545 - Ryūgasaki - Uchiyama - Odaihara - Shika - Uedahara - Shirojiritoge - Fukashi - Toishi - Katsurao - Kiso Fukushima - Kannomine - Matsuo - Kawanakajima - Musashi-Matsuyama - Kuragano - Minowa - Hachigata 1568 - Odawara 1569 - Mimasetoge - Kanbara - Hanazawa - Fukazawa - Futamata - Mikata ga Hara - Iwamura - Noda - Takatenjin 1574 - Yoshida - Nagashino - Omosu - Takatenjin 1581 - Temmokuzan - Takatō 1582 |
The battle of Uedahara was the first defeat suffered by Takeda Shingen, and the first field battle in Japan at which firearms were used.
Takeda Shingen met up with his force that had taken Shika castle, and led 7000 men north to face the threat posed by Murakami Yoshikiyo. Shingen's vanguard was led by Itagaki Nobukata; when they charged head-on into Murakami's vanguard, the charge was absorbed, and Itagaki killed.
Murakami made use of 50 ashigaru armed with Chinese arquebuses, who were meant to serve as support for archers. All in all, 700 of Takeda's men were killed, including Itagaki, and two other generals, Amari Torayasu and Hajikano Den'emon. Shingen himself even suffered a spear wound to his side.
[edit] Reference
- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.
